Practitioner Psychologist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Essential Experience

  Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist, normally including significant post-qualification experience within the designated speciality where the post is located, or relevant transferable skills

• Essential Experience

  Demonstration of further specialist training / experience through having received extensive and demonstrable clinical supervision of working as a practitioner psychologist or an alternative agreed by the Head of Psychology

• Essential Experience

  Experience of specialised psychological assessment and treatment of a range of clients across a wide range of care settings. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care, with experience of co-ordinating care within the context of multi-disciplinary care-planning.

• Other Essential Criteria

  Ability to travel within geographical area and work hours flexibly

• Other Essential Criteria

  Satisfactory Standard/Enhanced DBS clearance including an Adults and Childrens Barred List check Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

• Other Essential Criteria

  Capable of maintaining a high degree of professionalism and safe clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour

• Other Essential Criteria

  The ability to identify and provide appropriate means of support to line-managed staff who deal with highly distressing situations, severely challenging behaviours and other stressors.

• Other Essential Criteria

  The ability to use a variety of complex multi-media materials for a range of purposes such as teaching and training

• Other Essential Criteria

  Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

• Essential Aptitude and abilities

  Adhere to and can demonstrate SBU Values & Behaviours

• Essential Aptitude and abilities

  The ability to demonstrate a high level of competence to work within the designated speciality

• Essential Aptitude and abilities

  Skills in the supervision of other staff including Trainee Practitioner Psychologists

• Essential Aptitude and abilities

  Skills in the supervision of Trainee Practitioner Psychologists, through attending the University of Wales Clinical Psychology Programme ‘Preparation for Placement’ training

• Essential Aptitude and abilities

  Well-developed skills in effectively communicating very complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information, both orally and in writing, to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS

• Essential Aptitude and abilities

  Capable of effective workload management when facing competing demands. The ability to work collaboratively with a range of multidisciplinary colleagues

• Essential Qualifications & Knowledge

  Good honours Degree in Psychology. Eligibility for British Psychological Society Chartered status. Post-graduate Doctorate/Qualification in specialist area of (Clinical/Counselling/Forensic) Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or for those trained overseas, as accredited by the British Psychological Society or its equivalent allowing registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.

• Essential Qualifications & Knowledge

  Clinical supervision training for Doctoral Trainee Practitioner Psychologist. Doctoral level/ advanced knowledge of practitioner psychology theory and practice, psychological therapies and their application, neuropsychological and psychometric assessment and interpretation.

• Essential Qualifications & Knowledge

  Doctoral/advanced level knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis as practised within practitioner psychology. Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.